Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York farmers as an especial friend. The chief document was a map showing that, of New York's 57 rural counties (outside New York City) Governor Smith carried only two the first time he was elected, 13 the second time, one the third time, four the fourth time. New York City ("Tammany") was the only area he carried all four times...
...squad of speakers traveled to Maine, by tradition a political barometer though its Presidential readings have been only one way (Republican) for 52 years.* Nominee Smith spent the week concentrating on the first premise of a Democratic victory, New York State. Busiest of all, National Democratic Chairman Raskob, fourth of the Big Four, traveled from Manhattan to the Midwest, to attend Nominee Robinson's notification, to see the farmers for himself, to lubricate local machinery, to arrange Nominee Smith's autumn itinerary. Mr. Raskob referred repeatedly to "the goods" he had to "sell" and what good goods they...
...authentic "fourth degree" oath is as follows...
Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
...Knights of Columbus seem a mild and indeed a charitable organization. It will not therefore be easy for the average person to believe that the above great swear is the fourth degree oath of the Knights of Columbus. There are those, however, who know better, and who have spent thousands of dollars circulating copies of this oath among ignorant Protestants. Aware of this and aware also that the oath has never and will never be a part of its ritual, the Knights of Columbus, meeting in National Conference last week in Cleveland, promised to prosecute six unnamed organizations and persons...